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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Another Bad AutoUpdate

If you’re a web master you may not be happy with last week’s automatic update from Microsoft. It seems changes made to Internet Explorer 6 may cause it to crash when users visit your web site. (More Info)

If you’ve read my previous entries you’ll know I think auto-updates are evil. It seems like almost every Tuesday Microsoft is pushing out another security update. This week even the Dept. of Homeland Security went public encouraging users to obtain the latest security update.(More Info)

As an administrator of av small "NT" network (7+) since 1998, with no fancy* software/hardware running, I have had 1 (one) problem-the RPC.In retrospect, considering my users, I am happy taking the chance on updating sooner than later. *No, I will not define that.